SHILLONG: Khasi lady, Tailin Lyngdoh, who was shunted out of the Delhi Golf Club for wearing a Jainsem, has asserted that the she cannot forgive Delhi Golf Club for the humiliation meted out to her.
Speaking to the media here on Saturday, the 50 -year- old Tailin Lyngdoh said as a broken glass can never be fixed ,the same way she cannot forgive the club for looking down upon her.
She added that she did not want the club to be closed down but the club should mend its ways and treat people with respect.
She also wants the government to ensure that all such injustices and racial discrimination against anyone are eradicated. “The humiliation which I face should not happen with anyone,” she said.
Recalling the entire episode, she said that 10 to 15 minutes into their luncheon in Delhi Club, one Mr Pal and Ms Thakur together approached her directly and asked her to leave the table as apparently, “maids were not allowed”
“When we questioned how can they decide that she was a maid, they responded that she looked like a maid, her dress looked like that of a maid and that she resembled a Nepali,” she added.
“I have been to Abu Dhabi Golf Club and there I was not told to leave because of by dress and look ,” she added.
Her employer , Dr Nivedita Barthakur Sondhi who was with Tailin Lyngdoh in Delhi Golf Club had tried explaining to the club staff that Lyngdoh was wearing a jainsem, the Khasi national dress. However, the club officials refused to budge and added that she had to leave the place as domestic helpers were not allowed inside the dining hall.
Though the people of the club were made to understand that she was invited in her own right as guest of the member of the club and the reservation was there for nine people including Tailin Lyngdoh, the club staff insisted that Tailin could wait in the enclosure for maids and nannies.
The party at this point decided to leave the dining area and there a manager of the club commented
“Pata nahi kaha kaha se log ajate hai”
Earlier, Dr Nivedia Barthakur Sondhi who was in Shillong on Saturday met the chairperson of the Meghalaya State Commission for Woman, Teilinia Phanbuh besides several NGOs and civil society groups seeking their support to take the matter to its logical conclusion
According to Sondhi, Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma had discussed the matter with her and assured that the state would take up the matter on suo moto basis.